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Definition of Public-service corporation
1. Noun. A company that performs a public service; subject to government regulation.
Generic synonyms: Service
Specialized synonyms: Phone Company, Phone Service, Telco, Telephone Company, Telephone Service, Electric Company, Light Company, Power Company, Power Service, Water Company, Waterworks, Gas Company, Gas Service, Bus Company, Bus Service
Lexicographical Neighbors of Public-service Corporation
Literary usage of Public-service corporation
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Cyclopedia of American Government by Andrew Cunningham McLaughlin, Albert Bushnell Hart (1914)
"A corporation operating a telephone system upon private property for its own use
is not a public service corporation. On the other hand, general us* by the ..."
2. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1922)
"The contract rate was valid and binding upon both parties but subject to revision
by the Public Service Corporation, aa the public good might require. ..."
3. Industrial Arts Index by H.W. Wilson Company (1914)
"Public service corporation of New Jersey-font. Public service publicity work in
Newark, N. Pennsylvania public service companv law. ..."
4. Supreme Court Reporter by Robert Desty, United States Supreme Court, West Publishing Company (1917)
"The district court accordingly declined to give a technical* meaning to the
term "public service corporation," and interpreted it in the broad popular sense ..."
5. The American Commonwealth by James Bryce Bryce (1914)
"Every railroad or other public service corporation organized or doing business
in this State, under the laws or authority thereof, shall have and maintain a ..."
6. The Federal and State Constitutions: Colonial Charters, and Other Organic by Francis N. Thorpe, United States (1909)
"... to be held solely as security for indebtedness pursuant to such trust: And
provided further, That no public-service corporation shall hold any land, ..."
7. Convention by National Electric Light Association Convention, National Independent Meat Packers Association, University of Georgia College of Agriculture, University of Georgia Dept. of Food Science (1906)
"Schmidt, FW, Public Service Corporation of New Jersey, Jersey City, NJ Schwabe,
Walter P.. Public Service Corporation of New Jersey, Rutherford, NJ Shaw, ..."
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